Note content suddenly disappears, can't get it back

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Have been using Scapple on Mac for years without problems, currently running v1.50.1. Recently, though, while in the midst of working on a file, the text content of a note into which I have been entering text suddenly disappears. That is, the note border remains, but the contents have vanished. I frequently manually save my scapple files, but despite this, I can’t recover the missing content. The remaining note (ie. the border) behaves strangely in another way: after the text vanishes, I can’t select the note, and I can’t enter new text into it.

All the other notes in the file remain. I’ve had this occur on two different iMacs, one running OS 12.7.6 (Monterey) and one running v.13.7 Ventura.

Any ideas? Very frustrating.
This has cost me about 2 hours of work thus far

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What I would do is open the .scap file in a plain-text editor (TextEdit for example), and search for a phrase you know to be in that note. If the text is actually in the file, but invisible, then it should show up in the raw XML file. You can then copy and paste it out, close and open the .scap file normally, delete the note, and paste the text into a new note.

If the problem comes back, it may be the text itself has an invisible character in it that is breaking Scapple, and it might be easier just to type it back in yourself from scratch. The Mac, for whatever reason, has a bad habit of inserting junk characters that can mess up software.

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